dementia

Presents overviews of Alzheimer's disease, other dementias, and related disorders; discusses diagnosis and treatment; provides information and guidance for newly diagnosed Alzheimer's disease patients and caregivers; and covers Alzheimer's disease research.

FBI Special Agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock are assigned to protect Dr. MacLean, a physician with frontal lobe dementia that could compromise his ability to maintain doctor-patient confidentiality. With a patient list made up of Washington movers and shakers, MacLean's role as a keeper of secrets is jeopardized as well. Is there someone out there so desperate that they'd kill the doctor for what he knows? It is up to Jackson, Savich, and Sherlock to find out--no matter the cost--From publisher description.

The author, a neurologist, tells of his journey to Pingelap where he went to observe a community of islanders born with hereditary total colorblindness, and a subsequent visit to Guam where he went to investigate a fatal neurodegenerative disorder that has been plaguing people for over a century.

"Perspectives on Diseases and Disorders: Dementia: Each volume in this timely series provides essential information on a disease or disorder (symptoms, causes, treatments, cures, etc.); presents the controversies surrounding causes, alternative treatments, and other issues"--.

Provides information on dementia, including its causes, effects, and treatment.

At the end of his life, an old man regresses into his memories of his New England youth, where he is reunited with his father--who was an epileptic traveling salesman--and revisits old wounds, feelings of love, and melancholy.

Discusses the nature, possible causes, effects on the patient as well as family and friends, and treatment options of this deteriorative disease.

This book discusses dementia, a group of symptoms rather than one disease, presenting information on Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body dementia, vascular dementia, prion diseases, frontotemporal dementia, and certain kinds of dementia which are unique to children and describes treatments for dementia.